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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump - Video: Marc Thiessen: Barack Obama had a drone campaign.
He fired 560 drone strikes, killed not just terrorists, but killed an American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, did it on the ground, violating sovereignty, instead of in international waters.
And he regularly did what are called "double tap" and
even "triple tap" strikes.
I interviewed David Shedd, on my podcast, What the Hell is Going On Today, who was the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under Obama. And he said, we did double tap strikes all of the time.
In fact, we usually had a second Predator in the sky, waiting for the intelligence to clear, to see if there were any survivors, so we could take them out.
So this was a regular practice under the Obama administration because they were going after terrorists.
Trump has declared these people foreign terrorist organizations. He's using the same authority as the Obama administration.
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John Roberts: Now, in terms of how we characterize the fight between the United States and these drug cartels, here's what the DEA administrator Terry Cole said earlier today:
"This is all about saving American citizens and protecting our national security."
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John Roberts: All right. So that's basically in a nutshell, that's the 10 second elevator pitch, what this is all about.
Democrats say that the Trump administration is desperately trying to make this like, oh, it's Al Qaeda or it's ISIS. Well, I counted up about 3,100 Americans died at the hands of Al Qaeda and ISIS. Last year in this country, it was 80,391 people died of overdose deaths in the
United States. So is this or is this not a threat to American national security and to Americans?
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